Configuring a USB UPS

[Luis Paulo]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 15:56, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:
> Thanks,
> I tried to install it, but saw nothing new in the power manager
> after  install.
> What should I see? a new tab?
> Also, there were two options - one with hal and one without it...
> Thanks!
>

At the end of http://blog.shadypixel.com/monitoring-a-ups-with-nut-on-debian-or-ubuntu-linux/
"..., using upsd and upsmon, as opposed to nut-hal-drivers, is
probably the more reliable method of monitoring a UPS. It’s also the
only option available if you need to monitor one UPS from multiple
machines"


If you are trying the second method, running
$ upsc myups
should give you the ups status

you can also  install nut-cgi to get a web interface to check your ups
and run commands. You must have apache installed for this.
Then you type on your browser http://127.0.0.1/nut (or the machine ip
instead of 127.0.0.1)

if you read french, this site (http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/nut) also mentioned
      soit par une interface fenêtrée : KNutClient (pour KDE),
NUT-Monitor (basé sur la classe python PyNut), MGE UPS SYSTEMS
Personal Solution Pac, etc
      soit par une interface web : via l'installation du paquet
nut-cgi (tuto ici [en]), via un script php, etc.
      soit sous forme de plugin : pour gdesklets, GKrellM, etc.

Never tried the hal option (that's to get info on power manager, i think)

Please post-bottom.
Regards
Luis